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Mother Teresa (St. Teresa of Calcutta) · 1975 · Book
A Gift for God emerged from Mother Teresa's deepening recognition that her work among Calcutta's poorest demanded theological articulation. By 1975, her Missionaries of Charity had expanded beyond India, and requests poured…
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Henri Nouwen · 1975 · Book
Henri Nouwen wrote this spiritual meditation during a period of intense personal searching in the mid-1970s, drawing from his experiences as a priest, professor, and spiritual director wrestling with questions of authentic…
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Christian Meditation Christian Meditation: The Gethsemani Talks
John Main · 1977 · Book
Christian Meditation preserves a series of conferences that Benedictine monk John Main delivered to his fellow monastics at Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky during the 1970s. Main had discovered the practice of mantra…
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Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) · 1977 · Book
Joseph Ratzinger's systematic treatment of eschatology emerged from his theological lectures at the University of Regensburg in the 1970s, addressing what he saw as widespread confusion about Christian hope in the afterlife.…
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Yves Congar · 1979 · Book
Yves Congar's comprehensive three-volume study of the Holy Spirit emerged from his recognition that pneumatology had been neglected in Western theology for centuries. Writing in the 1970s as the charismatic renewal was…
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John Paul II · 1979 · Letter
John Paul II's first encyclical letter, issued in March 1979 just months after his election to the papacy, introduces the theological vision that would define his pontificate. Written as the Catholic Church…
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John Paul II · 1979–1984 · Treatise
Theology of the Body emerged from a series of 129 general audiences delivered by Pope John Paul II between September 1979 and November 1984. These weekly catecheses arose from the pope's conviction…
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John Paul II · 1980 · Letter
Dives in Misericordia is Pope John Paul II's second encyclical letter, issued in 1980 during the second year of his pontificate. Written amid the Cold War tensions and global upheavals of the…
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Bernard Lonergan · 1980 · Book
Understanding and Being emerged from a series of lectures Bernard Lonergan delivered at Halifax in the summer of 1958, designed to make accessible the dense philosophical framework he had developed in his…
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John Main · 1980 · Book
Word into Silence represents John Main's foundational teaching on Christian meditation, emerging from his discovery of an ancient practice that had been largely forgotten in the Western church. Main, a Benedictine monk,…
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John Paul II · 1981 · Letter
Laborem Exercens (On Human Work) stands as John Paul II's third encyclical, issued in 1981 on the ninetieth anniversary of Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum. Written during a period of global economic upheaval…
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John Paul II · 1981 · Letter
Familiaris Consortio is Pope John Paul II's 1981 apostolic exhortation on the role of the Christian family in the modern world. Written following the 1980 Synod of Bishops dedicated to family life,…
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Yves Congar · 1982 · Book
Diversités et communion emerged from Yves Congar's decades of engagement with the question of Christian unity, written as the French Dominican theologian reflected on the achievements and remaining challenges following the Second…
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Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) · 1982 · Book
Joseph Ratzinger's Principles of Catholic Theology emerged from his decades as a professor and his early years as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Published in 1982, this…
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John Main · 1984 · Book
John Main's "Moment of Christ" emerged from his years of teaching Christian meditation at his monastery in Montreal, where he had established a community devoted to the ancient practice of contemplative prayer.…
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Henry Wansbrough, general editor; Catholic scholars · 1985 · Scripture
The New Jerusalem Bible is a major revision of the Jerusalem Bible of 1966, its predecessor and base translation, drawing more directly on original-language texts and incorporating updated scholarship. It is a…
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Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) · 1985 · Book
The Ratzinger Report emerged from a series of wide-ranging interviews that Italian journalist Vittorio Messori conducted with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 1984, twenty years after the close of the Second Vatican Council.…
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Theo-Logic Theo-Logic: Theological Logical Theory
Hans Urs von Balthasar · 1985–1987 · Treatise
Theo-Logic represents Hans Urs von Balthasar's monumental attempt to articulate a distinctly theological logic, completing his theological trilogy that began with The Glory of the Lord and continued with Theo-Drama. Writing in…
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Hans Urs von Balthasar · 1986 · Book
Hans Urs von Balthasar's theological essay emerged from decades of wrestling with the tension between divine justice and divine mercy in Catholic doctrine. Writing in 1986 as one of the twentieth century's…
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New American Bible New American Bible — Revised New Testament
Catholic Biblical Association scholars · 1986 · Scripture
A major revision of the New American Bible's New Testament, this text stands within the tradition of Catholic biblical translation in English in the United States, undertaken under the sponsorship of the…
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Thomas Keating · 1986 · Book
Thomas Keating's Open Mind, Open Heart emerged from his decades of experience as a Trappist monk and his leadership in the contemplative prayer renewal movement that began in American Catholic monasteries during…
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Yves Congar · 1987 · Book
Written in the final years of Yves Congar's life, this collection of autumn conversations represents the mature reflections of one of the twentieth century's most influential ecclesiologists. The work emerged from a…
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Yves Congar · 1987 · Book
Called to Life represents Yves Congar's mature reflections on Christian discipleship and the spiritual life, written in his final years as one of the twentieth century's most influential Catholic theologians. The work…
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John Paul II · 1987 · Letter
This encyclical letter emerged from Pope John Paul II's deep Marian devotion and his conviction that the approaching third millennium of Christianity called for renewed reflection on Mary's role in salvation history.…
